“The Four Accordionists of the Apocalypse is inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s engraving The Four Horsemen, from The Apocalypse (1498). I saw Dürer’s print in the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia during a somewhat down-and-out period in the ’90s when I was living off busking on the streets with my accordion. Struck by the work, I thought, ‘what if they were accordionists?’ I doctored the poster, which appeared in the Incinerator Gallery exhibition Amazing Accordions on Ice (Melbourne, 2005), and wrote a play with the same title and original accordion music, which won the Melbourne Fringe Best Emerging Artist award in 2012.”
